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From: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net>
To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: The growing accessibility gap:  was Ameritech.net
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 21:41:49 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0109072137530.17235-100000@ns.shellworld.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010908013329.A33158@stalin.acc.umu.se>

When a computer language is written so that it's possible for stupid
programmers to generate garbage with it and call that finished product the
inventors of the language in my book take full responsibility for having
enabled the garbage.  html on its face before netscape and microsoft came
in and added their innovations was lots more accessible just using lynx
than most of the world-wide wait is today.

Jude <jdashiel@shellworld.net>

On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Peter Toneby wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 05:36:26PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > The three companies primarily responsible for inaccessibility are sun
> > microsystems for having invented java in the first place.  Second netscape
> > for having innovated html and java.  Third Microsoft for having innovated
> > everything else.
>
> *beeep*
> Now this is pretty much plain wrong!!!!
> Java, in and on itself, is not inaccessible, it's stupid programmers
> that write stupid java-applets,. That should never have been possible.
> HTML is not netscapes fault, it w3c's, and netscape hasn't touched Java
> very much, IE and Netscape had java-support at the same time. And
> Microsoft haven't innovated shit. they have moslty bought their
> "innovations" and Windows is alot more accesible than linux when it
> comes to apps, In Linux you can't just start jaws and then pretty much
> any other app without problems, try and do that on linux with X (say to
> do something thee are no fileformat->text-app, You will fail miserably,
> but luckily this is seldom the case for most of you. And you can happily
> use Linux in console instead of X.
>
> oh, well time to stop rantin and start sleeping...
>
> /Peter
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Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Ameritech.net Karl Dahlke
 ` Ameritech.net Cheryl Homiak
 ` Ameritech.net Cheryl Homiak
 ` Ameritech.net Janina Sajka
   ` Ameritech.net John J. Boyer
     ` Ameritech.net Janina Sajka
   ` Ameritech.net S. Massy
     ` The growing accessibility gap: was Ameritech.net Cheryl Homiak
       ` Jude DaShiell
         ` Peter Toneby
           ` Jude DaShiell [this message]
             ` Aman Singer
               ` Jude DaShiell
                 ` Aman Singer
             ` Andor Demarteau
         ` Andor Demarteau
           ` Mike Gorse
             ` Andor Demarteau
     [not found]         ` <Pine.GSO.4.21.0109081949390.27801-100000@abeel.students.cs .uu.nl>
           ` simon
             ` Andor Demarteau
               ` Saqib Shaikh
 blindguy13
 ` Joseph Carter
 ` Jude DaShiell
   ` Jared
     ` Jude DaShiell
     ` Angelo Sonnesso
       ` Jared
     ` Rick Hayner
       ` Jude DaShiell
     ` Rafael Skodlar
       ` Andor Demarteau
         ` Ray Saldana III
     ` Ari Moisio
 ` Andor Demarteau
 Adam Bertram
 ` Joseph Carter

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